Kids ages 13 and older will find Linda Bayer's Drugs Crime And Criminal Justice to be a 100+ page title essential for social studies classes studying issues of drugs and the justice system. The chapters comprising Drugs Crime And Criminal Justice cover America's early drug history to present-day legal and social systems, with black and white photos providing illustration. Highly recommended for both Law/Justice and Social Issues reference collections.

I'm sure that to accomplish all that Ginsburg has accomplished she must be a fascinating person. However, Bayer certainly made her biography a bit "dry". While factually correct and thorough, I felt the writing style was too cut and dry. It would make a adequate reference source, but I certainly was not enthrawled nor impressed. The court cases which she used as examples were "a bit too much information"--at least for jr. high school students. This book needs a little more warmth and personality for me.

This book as with other psychoactive information books from Harvard University Medical School are great if you are interested in the history of the substance and just the basics. They are however the product of misinformation and a biased standpoint. I find ignorance is a common trait with these books.